Stanley: to play 18 and a half years old. In some way the perfect older brother to Eugene, salt of the earth, hard-working, deeply ethical, and very sensitive while still a man’s man. At the same time Stanley is still learning to be an adult, in part through messing up, at times very badly. Regrets having to work in a factory and can make wild attempts to ''escape'' with bad results. He very powerfully and emotionally regrets when he feels he has failed his responsibility to his family (especially his younger brother). Groping his way to adulthood, breaking some of the good china on the way.